Philadelphia Eagles general manager Howie Roseman just wrapped up his annual pre-draft meeeting with the media in which he was peppered with questions about the process and how it's evolved for them and the NFL over the years.

Here are a few highlights from the sessiom, which lasted just under an hour.

*Roseman said the team will be aided in its defensive evaluations because "there are more 3-4 college teams now than there were five or six years ago."

*He would not hesitate to move up in the draft, despite having just sixc picks going in, if the value was right.

*Their first-round picks the last two years were targeted beforehand and were not the result of how things unfolded before their picks. They have the same plan this year, but could change on the fly if certain players they thought they would have no chance of drafting start to fall.

*On why the team has chosen linemen with most of its first-round picks for more than a decade: "There aren't many men who are 330 pounds with 34-inch arms who can move their bodies."

*In addition to wide receiver, he believes offensive tackle and cornerback are particularly strong positions in this year's draft.

*Trent Cole "doesn't get enough credit" for making the transition from 4-3 defensive end to 3-4 outside linebacker last season.

*He trusts the draft process because of the people in place. "We get a lot of great debates," he said. "Sometimes I'm the only one in the room who feels one way but I won't overrule them."

*He values the process of pursuing undrafted free agents just as much in years when they don't have a lot of picks, like this one, as they do when they have 10 or more.

*Most of their recent misses were the result of "trying to force something that wasn't there," he said. "Whether it was guys beating up on guys because they were older (Danny Watkins), whether it was guys who didn't run as well (Jaiquawn Jarrett), whether it was guys who when you look at some of their testing, they had such stiffness that they were unable to overcome it (Curtis Marsh).

"I think it becomes more apparent when you go back and look at it that you were trying to force something."

For the record, Roseman didn't mention those players in parentheses (or any others) by name. Didn't need to.